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Media and Information Literacy

The
virtual interconnected world of today demands one, to have multiple links, to
reach out to other essential parts of our own ocean. We are in the middle of
the ocean of information. To swim through to the safer part is the most
important responsibility ahead. The safer part is not a dry place. It is still
in the ocean.

But
the fact is the ocean of information possesses all the nourishment and bonus we
live for. Driven by its love and terror, the dwellers benefit from it and
succumb to it, respectively. Therefore the education and literacy in media and
information becomes the undeniable field of study and concern to the dwellers
like us. Concern because we lack the tools and skills to survive in, and
extract benefits from, the web/internet/media. The main skill we need, to
analyze the media and media messages, is critical
thinking.

The vital parts of Media and
Information Literacy (MIL) are:

(1)
The skills and tools to enable access to the World Wide Web;

(2)
The skills and techniques to create and communicate through media;

What
is Media Literacy?
Simply put, media literacy is a combination of skills, knowledge,
and attitudesthat best enable an individual to search,
select, analyze, and communicate in various forms of media.
-BCMD
It includes the abilities to judge the credibility of information, to express
one’s views, and to consume media mindfully. -BCMD

With these ideas as basis, the
school runs a Media Literacy club-yML, currently coordinated by Shanti Ram Pakwal